The best PvP (player VS player) games
Of all the multiplayer modes available for a game, PvP (Player VS Player) is one of the most appreciated. The thrill of competing in some way against a human opponent is something that changes the way you're playing and is often completely different than fighting a computer opponent. In fact, the first games in history lacked a computer opponent (it needed more resources, more code, etc.), there was PvP before everything else.
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Powermonger
DOS1992 Bullfrog
Powermonger is a real-time strategy game where the player must defeat opponents by conquering towns and tipping the balance of power in their favor. Success requires giving orders to soldiers and captains, as well as accumulating ...
Populous
DOS1989 Bullfrog
Populous is an abandoned strategy game designed by the video game celebrity Peter Molyneux, developed by Bullfrog. Populous was released by Electronic Arts in 1989 for DOS and for a long list of other 16-bit and 8-bit systems, bot...
18th Airborne
DOS1993
18th Airborne is what happens when a military recruitment pamphlet and a tactical shooter have a baby. You’re thrown into the boots of a paratrooper with a mission, a gun, and maybe a vague idea of what’s going on. The...
Masterblazer
DOS1991remake Rainbow Arts
Black & White
Windows XP/98/952001 LionHead Studios
Black & White (2001) is what happens when a god game gets a bit too literal. You play as a deity, complete with a giant hand, an enormous ego, and a giant pet that poops on villagers. Will you be kind and benevolent, or a flam...
Blood & Magic
DOS1996 Tachyon Studios
From the people who brought you Dungeons & Dragons, here's Blood & Magic (1996), the RTS that nobody remembers but definitely deserves a second glance. You summon golems from magical “blood forges” because appa...
Low blow
DOS1990 Synergistic Software
Billy The Kid
DOS1990 Level 9 Computing
Saddle up, pardner. Billy The Kid puts you in the dusty boots of the infamous outlaw himself. This is the Wild West, DOS-style — pixel pistols, wanted posters, and dialogue that might make a cactus wince. Whether you’r...
Full Metal Planete
DOSMac OS1990 Hitech Productions
Risk: the World Conquest Game
DOS1989 Mastertronic
Empire II: The Art of War
DOSWindows XP/98/951995 White Wolf Productions
Blasteroids
DOS1989 Atari
Blasteroids is a video game developed and released by Atari, Inc. in 1987. It's a sequel to the classic arcade game Asteroids, which was released in 1979. In Blasteroids, players control a spaceship tasked with destroying asteroid...
Mario Bros VGA
DOS1990remake
Mario Bros VGA is a fan made remake of the original Mario Bros by Nintendo, the game that popularized the character of Mario, the Italian plumber that first appeared in Donkey Kong. Mario Bros VGA is a fixed-screen platform arcade...
Fidelity Chessmaster 2100
DOS1989 The Software Toolworks
Krazy Ivan
Windows XP/98/951996 Psygnosis
Xenophage: Alien BloodSport
DOS1996freeware Argo Games
Zorlim's Arcade Volleyball
DOS1995freewareremake
Released in 1995 for DOS, Zorlim's Arcade Volleyball is what happens when someone decides regular volleyball isn’t chaotic enough. Picture stick figures with the agility of caffeinated spiders and a physics engine that took ...
Mychess
DOS1984 The Software Toolworks
Risk
Windows 3.x1991 Azeroth
Ultimate Domain
DOS1994 Microids
Sensible World of Soccer 96/97
DOS1996protected Sensible Software
Ballistix
DOS1989 Reflections Interactive
Ballistix asks: “What if air hockey was controlled by futuristic cannons?” The answer: chaos. You frantically shoot pucks with directional blasts while the physics engine does whatever it wants. It’s fast, it&rsq...
Chopper Duel
DOS1993freeware
Football Glory
DOS1995freeware Croteam
Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition
DOS1996 Capcom
The Battle of the Bulge: Tigers in the Snow
DOS1982protected Tactical Design Group
Wizard of Wor 98
DOS1998remake
Tennis Elbow
DOS1997 Mana Games
Super Speed
DOS1995
Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor
Windows XP/98/951997 Westwood Studios